Stockyard Volume Up $1.7 Million; But Less Animals Sold Higher prices for livestock pushed the dollar volume at the Lancaster Union Stockyards to $53,228.960 last year, despite an 8 5 per cent decrease in numbers of animals. The 1069 figure was based on a livestock volume of 272,783 head and was up more than 51.7 million from a year earlier. Vol ume in 1908 was 298.669 head. Based on Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture figuies, the dollar volume was the highest in thiee years, but the animal le ceipts was the lowest. Stockyards revenues in 1968 weie reported as $51,486,766, and in 1967 were $44,753,085 Declines in \olumes of cattle, calves, hogs and sheep weie re ported this year from last year. Th« heaviest decline came in beef cattle tiade with 19,849 fewer head sold. Calves dropped by 1,111 head, hogs by 1,430 head and sheep by 3,496 head Trading volumes for the past three jeais include Cattle .. Calves Hogs .. Sheep . Total . GROWERS FERTILIZER SOLUTIONS applied in the row is one of the best and quickest complete analysis starter fertilizers on the market today. applied as a foliage spray is very quickly absorbed through the leaves - are 90 to 95% available to the plant are non-toxic, non-corrosive and non-poisonous to animals will not freeze, are delivered to the farm to 300 gallon Growers owned and maintained bulk tanks. are applied by inexpensive equipment offered by Growers, give larger yields, result in earlier maturity, lower moisture content, and better quality in crops. offer a more economical and easier means of fertilization, f-* improve soil conditions and farm production when used in conjunction with the “Growers Program.” Pan! S. Ehersole, Elizabethtown R. D. 1, got 190 bu. yield per acre with a Growers Fertilizer Solution cost of only $6.90 per acre. Eastern State Distributing Co. Litilz, R. D. 2, Pa. 17543 1968 1969 171,910 24,149 84,242 18,368 298,669 152,061 23,038 82,812 14,872 272,783 On-the-Farm Delivery by Grow ers Trucks • Wheat Loan (Continued from Page 17) Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washing ton, and Wyoming where the maturity date is May 31. For the 1964 and 1965 crops, the maturi ty date is March 31. The policy of dropping older crops from annual loan exten sion programs has long been followed by Commodity Credit Corporation as a matter of good management practice As newer crops become eligible for re seal loans, the older stocks aie moved out so only the fresher supplies are continued in stor age. To help advance planning of wheat marketing, USDA an nounced its sales policy for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1970. Sales of stoiable wheat will be made for unrestricted use at not less than the 1970 loan rate, where stoied, plus an 18 3 /4 cents-per-bushel flat maik up (representing 15 percent of the national average loan rate), plus carrying charges of IVz cents per bushel per month for 9 months (beginning in the second month), or the market price, if higher. 1967 169,750 26,848 73,717 18,809 288,649 Phone 626-8909 Lancaster Farming, Saturday. February 14.1970 A memorial gavel, honoring the educational work of Arthur A. Schpltz, formerly of the Reading Bone and Ferti lizer Company who served as first president of the Pennsyl vania Plant Food Educational Society, was presented to John C. Hoffman, of the Lancaster Bone and Fertilizer Com pany, Quarryville, society president, at the recent Lime and Fertilizer Conference at The Pennsylvania State University. The gavel, to be passed on each year to the plant food so ciety’s president, was designed by the Reading Bone and Fertilizer Company and presented to Hoffman by William Angstadt, company representative. Many farm lease airangements peison to have a copy A wutten aie being made at this time of lease may not guaiantee com the year. Thei e are many fox ms plete honesty, but it will provide of leases and all kinds of clauses for a better understanding of all made to suit diffeient individuals responsibilities; and results in The important thing is to get the less disputes and dissatisfaction, lease into writing and signed by If there is a chance of misunder all parties concerned, and each standing, theie will be. FREY FREE STALL Lifetime Free Stall Housing Cut bedding costs 75%, reduce labor for barn cleaning and cow washing; reduce teat and udder injury to the minimum house your milking herd in free stall housing. Each cow provided a stall for loafing. She won’t be stepped on, the rear curb forces manure out into alley for mechanical cleaning or washing. A few minutes twice a day cleans the stalls and curbs, bedd ing lasts almost forever if your stalls fit the cows. Popular sizes are 6’6”, 7’ and 7’6”. Size ’em by breed. Our fiee stall paitilion may be mounted on wooden head boards or we make a steel divider. Set the legs m 8 to 10” concrete curbs to hold and retain beddrng. Stall floor can be soil, sand or gravel. Beddrng straw, sawdust, peanut hulls, ground corn cobs, etc. Should be rnstalled wrth paved alley surface 8 feet wrde for mechanrcal cleanrng or washrng. • 8 Models all steel welded farm and feedlot gates • 2 Models all steel welded head catch gate For prices, contact: Fred Frey, Mgr. 786-2235 <7,7, R.D. #2 Quarryville, Peima. 17566 23
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